From prioritizing breakfast to allowing yourself to indulge, these small changes recommended by author Dan Buettner can help improve your overall well-being.
These six powerful food practices create a virtuous circle between food, healthy social networks, moving naturally, strong spiritual life, and overall well-being. Try incorporating them into your daily routine and create your own personal “Blue Zone”—a place to live your longest, healthiest life.Knowing which foods to eat—and in what quantities—is the first step toward eating to 100. But there’s more that we can learn from people in the Blue Zones about food.
Standing and preparing ingredients for cooking at home provides more benefit than you might realize, since meal prep involves a lot of physical activity that sitting in a restaurant doesn't provide.Devout Catholic Sardinians and Nicoyans fast during Lent, the 40 days before Easter, during which time they abstain from meat. Studies show that occasionally going without food, even for a day, can provide health benefits. It can recalibrate insulin release, giving the pancreas a break.
As a rule, people in Blue Zones never eat alone—like this family in Greece— never eat standing up, and never eat while driving.Mealtimes in the Blue Zones are a time to give thanks, share stories, talk out problems, and bond as a family. As a rule, people there never eat alone, never eat standing up, and never eat with the other hand on the steering wheel. As my Ikarian guide Thea Parikos pointed out, when her family sits down to a meal, she leaves the stress of the day elsewhere.
Portions of this article have previously appeared in Blue Zones, The Science of Living Longer, by Dan Buettner. Copyright © 2021 National Geographic Partners, LLC. Available wherever books and magazines are sold.Travel
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